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US 10,377,295 B2Granted
Cargo restraining system and method for a motor vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsPietro Buttolo, Annette Lynn Huebner, Stuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, James J. Surman
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Abstract
A cargo restraining system has a frame and a cargo net carried on the frame. The frame and the cargo net are displaceable between a first position partitioning a cargo area from a passenger area of a motor vehicle and a second position overlying cargo supported on a cargo area floor of the motor vehicle. A related method is also disclosed.
Claims15
A cargo restraining system, comprising:
- a frame including a pivot shaft, a first side rib, a second side rib and a cross rib connecting said first side rib and said second side rib;
- an elastic cargo net spanning said frame;
- and
- said frame and said cargo net being pivoted about said pivot shaft between a first position and a second position.
1 more element
A method of restraining cargo in a cargo area of a motor vehicle, comprising:
- positioning a displaceable cargo restraining system in one of a first position partitioning said cargo area from a passenger area of said motor vehicle and a second position overlying cargo supported on a cargo area floor of said motor vehicle wherein said cargo restraining system includes a cargo net spanning a frame;
- and
- biasing, by a first biasing element, said cargo restraining system toward said first position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.